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Justine Larbalestier

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Aussie USian Novelist & Clothes Wearer, who loves the WNBA. Penguin (Au/UK/USA) will publish my next novel, The Mortons (2026). Fascism=bad. @DrJustineFancyPants on Insta. She/her/hers. https://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2025/08/28/how-to-find-my-books/

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Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · Aug 29

For those looking for my books: justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2025/08...

The next one, The Mortons, which I wrote with @scottwesterfeld.bsky.social, will be out in 2026 in Australia, Bulgaria, France, Germany, New Zealand, the UK & USA.

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How to Find My Books - Justine Larbalestier

Because I haven’t published a new novel since 2016, my books have all become backlist titles, which means they aren’t readily available as printed paper books. The good news is that I’ll have a new no...

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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 2d

Once again: this is also happening in DC. Still.

It feels like we’ve been forgotten, maybe because there aren’t huge confrontations to run photos of. But our neighbors are still being taken every day. Routine traffic stops are now done by 12+ feds alongside local police.

Please talk about us too.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22h

Also if you want to know why particle physics matters for the future of humanity, I wrote a book about it, and it's coming out on April 7 and you can preorder it now 👽

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 4d

changing your behavior to be more in line with your values (ie: caring for, preserving your & your communities health), especially in such extraordinary circumstances as we are facing, is admirable.

it is time to be courageous, time to use every tool in the box. mask up.

bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · Aug 5

are you so over wildfire smoke? allergies? this getting covid repeatedly thing? protect yourself with filtered air!
•Bonafide Masks
•WellBefore
•Dräger
•BeHealthy
•Laianzhi
•BNX
•3M
•MaskC
•CambridgeMask
*buying directly from distributors (some use amazon)=best way to avoid less than quality product

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Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 1d

As a white woman US citizen in my 50s I'll be at the Saturday 18 Oct #nokings mass rebuke of Republican authoritarian rule.

I will carry proof of my citizenship.

I encourage others with as many protections to do likewise.

If you don't have citizenship or are in a persecuted class STAY SAFE.

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

Saturday is going to be huge, boisterous and joyful: “It doesn’t matter if you’ve never protested before. This is a place for you if you believe we don’t do kings in this country.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social to @maddow.msnbc.com

Please join us on No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2d

anyways attend NO KINGS this weekend!

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plasticparticulate.bsky.social @plasticparticulate.bsky.social · 2d

This weekend folks

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No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

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Seerat Sohi @seeratsohi.bsky.social · 2d

The CBA, Saudi money, Unrivaled, conflicts of interest, an embattled commissioner, and increased NBA involvement: here's a mega-primer for what promises to be the most chaotic, transformational offseason in WNBA history

www.theringer.com/2025/10/14/w...

The WNBA’s Future Is on the Clock

It’s a make-or-break offseason for the WNBA. Is the league headed for a lockout? Or will the players get the changes they’re demanding?

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Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, Chicago. *weeps*

Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 2d

"Since taking office, D*n*ld Tr**p has waged a scorched-earth campaign against trans people. The man with the most power has expended enormous energy targeting those with the least." @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 2d

I loved this from @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social #transrightsarehumanrights youtu.be/bEvVSpN0BXg

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 2d

Litfic writers should keep all genres out their mouths. Ignorant lackwits!

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 2d

Please share the news about these students working to get transparency on why books were removed from a statewide reading bowl (including a book ON book banning!!)

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And then sign their petition here: www.change.org/p/ensure-tra...

A Georgia Reading Bowl Bans Titles from Competition, Including a Book on Book Bans

Eight books, including a book about the current spate of book bans and their impact on teens, have been banned from a Georgia Reading Bowl.

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Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 2d

FACTS

Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 2d

Because t-shirts are only fit for sleeping in.

Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 2d

I may have celebrated The Mortons finally getting its ISBN: 9798217059492.

I'm a huge believer in celebrating EVERY stage in my books' journey to publication.

The next big one is the cover. I'm hoping for something that conveys gnarly sexy crime family dark academic gorgeous existential despair.

Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 2d

Such fun, ain't it?

Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 2d

No. Unless they're super into darkness.

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Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 2d

Yes.

Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 2d

Yes.

Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 2d

Exciting news! If you have a @netgalley.bsky.social account you can request my next novel, The Mortons. Co-written with @scottwesterfeld.bsky.social.

It publishes in Canada/USA & UK, July 2026. (Still waiting on Australia/NZ, Bulgaria, France & German pub dates.)

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The Mortons

NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3d

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 3d

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 4d

Rude! Aussies are very aggro. Even the ones in turtlenecks!

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 5d

Just a reminder that Banned Books Week isn’t about selling more copies of 1984. It’s about keeping authors and teachers and librarians safe and making sure all of us have the freedom to read widely. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Children’s Authors on the Real-World Cost of Book Banning

Authors discuss how having their work targeted by censors has directly affected their livelihood and their well-being.

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Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 5d

Let's start normalising NOT calling this crap #AI. Because there's nothing intelligent about it. It's #LLM (large language model) slop. Or to be truly accurate: LLM #IP (intellectual property) theft slop.

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 5d

“Uncritical adoption of AI, will inevitably create people without critical thinking, and this may be a feature - not a bug, as it represents an attack on human agency itself.”

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The infrastructure of meaninglessness

Listen, there are two realities that we should be aware of. AI exists to make your job obsolete because the alternative is that AI makes managers obsolete. Let me try to break down this theory, which...

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